09-05-2020, 11:21 AM
I think the VM is a medicinal herbal made with astrological magic. It is my theory based simply on common sense. If I see a medieval book with images and a script never seen, the first thing I think is that its authors have imagined something they don't see either but what they believe in. They are not avant-garde artists. They are people who believe in the power of the stars.
They don't draw herbs they know, but the opposite, because they believe that the herbs must be somewhere in the world. In a hundred years of research, reputed botanists have been unable to identify even 10% of the plants, and that without full security. And most surprisingly, people more familiar with the natural world than us did not identify them in the 17th century either. And surely many learned people saw the VM then.
They don't draw herbs they know, but the opposite, because they believe that the herbs must be somewhere in the world. In a hundred years of research, reputed botanists have been unable to identify even 10% of the plants, and that without full security. And most surprisingly, people more familiar with the natural world than us did not identify them in the 17th century either. And surely many learned people saw the VM then.